Re: Review: 'Munich' a masterpiece


"Abdiel" <abdiel_bc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The Chozen Few <thechosenfew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> "1MAN4ALL" <forahmad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> The Chozen Few wrote:
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>>>> > The Chozen Few wrote:
>>>> >> Review: 'Munich' a masterpiece
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Spielberg film brilliantly acted, directed, written
>>>> >>
>>>> >> By Paul Clinton
>>>> >> For CNN.com
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Friday, December 23, 2005 Posted: 1424 GMT (2224 HKT)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The film, directed by Steven Spielberg, is a visceral, emotionally
>>>> >> exhausting work that dares to ask questions -- and gives no easy
>>>> >> answers --
>>>> >> regarding the horrifying events that occurred at the 1972 Munich
>>>> >> Olympics
>>>> >> and their aftermath.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> That fall, the entire world watched as an extremist Palestinian
>>>> >> group,
>>>> >> Black
>>>> >> September, kidnapped and massacred Israel's 1972 Olympic team. This
>>>> >> was
>>>> >> at
>>>> >> an Olympics labeled "The Olympics of Peace and Joy."
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The deaths were played out in real time on television, with the
>>>> >> hostage
>>>> >> drama culminating in a botched rescue mission at a nearby airport.
>>>> >> Many
>>>> >> historians point to Olympic tragedy as the beginning of the kind of
>>>> >> worldwide terrorism we know today.
>>>> >
>>>> > I haven't seen the movie yet but, almost every year, Hollywood
>>>> > produces
>>>> > one or two movies in which American/Israeli heroes kill dozens, if
>>>> > not
>>>> > hundreds, of "terrorists." This satisfies bloodlust of ordinary
>>>> > Americans who hate Arabs/Muslims. If that is enough, other movies are
>>>> > produced in which rich Arab sheiks are acting stupid. Nothing new.
>>>
>>>> Yeah, nothing as avante garde as actually cutting infidels' heads off
>>>> on
>>>> film.
>>>
>>> Some of the beheaded were also Muslims, not just "infidels." There is
>>> no need for that type of sarcastic humor. If you are going to keep on
>>> comparing yourself with the terrorists, you would always look good.
>>
>>
>> If my goal was to look good, I wouldn't have to go beyond comparing
>> myself
>> to most Hollywoodites. And if Middle East Arabs were to start making and
>> exporting something besides snuff films, I'd have a basis for another
>> kind
>> of comparison.
>>
>
> http://www.al-bab.com/media/cinema/cinema.htm
>
> Hope that helps,
> A


"The struggle to be seen..."

Indeed.

The local Blockbuster outlet, provincial and bigoted though it may be, has
several Iranian films in stock but not even one title from any predominately
Arab nation. Disappointing, because I'd like to see "The Architecture of
Mud," listed in the Internet Movie Database from your link as a Saudi
Arabian offering, even though its director is apparently an Italian.


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